Milagros, Diablos y Caricaturas. Ejes fúnebres y rupturas temporales en San Bartolomé de Carata. Macha, Potosí, siglos XVI al XXI

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The paper distinguishes three millennial periods (tyimpus) ; and, regressively, three “memorial groups” in Macha :From the end of the 20th century till the 18th and mid-17th centuries ;From 1612 till the age of Inca Guayna Capac ;The present emergence from the late 20th century of a new group for a new millenium.These groups are focused on the changing ceremonial and funerary roles of a historic annex of Macha, the Saltlicks of Carata, connected with Macha town by a long axis, or “ceque”, of death. This axis can be detected in the first and second memorial periods, when the ancestral cult was replaced by the Church muyu fiesta at Todos Santos; and was aggravated in the late 20th century when Carata became the scene for violent tinkus over the cemetery at Todos Santos between the moieties of Macha, and vampire-like creatures (the Black Bull and the sinister anchanchu) stalked amidst the mayhem drinking blood and encouraging cannibalism. In 1994 this led to the prohibition of the fiesta and the renunciation of the moiety Curaca, as the syndical authorities took over. Today a third historical period is emerging which expunges memories, and was called the “time of the sindicatos” by a veteran of the tinkus of Carata. In 2015, the Servicio Nacional de Caminos destroyed the sacred landscape of Carata.